In bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson's Eye for an Eye, DI Jessica Daniel is tasked with multiple investigations while facing demons from her past.

Seventeen years ago, Damian Walker abducted five women because the voices in his head told him to. Now he has been declared sane and is about to be released back onto Manchester’s streets with a new identity.

But within hours, there is another attack similar to his previous ones. Walker has proof it’s not him – but is he reliable, and, if so, who is trying to frame him?

DI Jessica Daniel and her chief are given a parallel task to the main investigation: Keep an eye on Walker – but that’s not all Jessica has to do.

Rock star Blaine Banner is playing a series of homecoming gigs but is convinced someone’s trying to kill him, while a bride-to-be is picketing the police station, demanding someone finds her missing fiancé.

All the while, faces from Jessica’s past are watching and waiting. Someone wants a word . . .

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4.0 out of 5 starsStrong Entry to Excellent Series

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After reading several of the author's books featuring Jessica Daniel without really relating to the Greater Manchester, England, detective investigator, I think I've finally warmed up to her. To be clear, all the books I've read have been very good - it's just that Jessica herself wasn't a character I would be eager to sit down with at a bar and share drinks. This installment, though, won me over; so Jessica, if you ever cross the Pond and land in northeastern Ohio, I'm buying.

How that mental switcheroo came about is a sort of yin-yang thing, actually. There are so many different "plots" going on in this one that it's almost hard to keep the players straight (and the bits with the rock star who thinks a ghost is out to get him and bridezilla-to-be whose fiance has gone missing are, quite honestly, borderline silly). On the other side of the equation, all those story lines provide greater insights into Jessica's background and personality, thus allowing me to get to know, and like, her better - so all's well that ends well. And speaking of endings, as is the author's norm in this series, there's a cliffhanger - but it's not nearly as in-your-face as in previous books.

Jessica is still struggling with the loss of Adam, the love of her life and the victim of a car bombing meant for Jessica. He's been in a hospital in a coma from which he's not expected to recover for quite some time, pitting her hope against reality. She's also desperate to find her teenage friend Bex, a runaway who's been living with Jessica but suddenly went missing. The primary story, though, is the release from mental hospital custody of Damian Walker, who abducted and gruesomely murdered several women 17 years earlier. Deemed "safe" for society, he's been stashed in a sort of witness protection program under a new name. Not long afterward, another woman is murdered in a similar fashion, raising suspicions that Walker is neither safe nor sane. Problem is, he wears a leg monitor 24/7 and clearly never left his house. Among those most upset is Anne, one of Walker's years-ago targets who managed to survive with serious physical and mental injuries.

After yet another woman turns up dead, Jessica and her team are charged with finding out whether Walker is somehow escaping or someone else is trying to frame him. In between, she has to deal with that very annoying bride-to-be - who's managed to make a media spectacle of herself and the cops who aren't helping her - and that rock star who seems to have taken a shine to Jessica. Oh yes, and worry that Bex flew the coop because of something Jessica said or did.

All in all, another satisfying series entry. I thank the publisher, via NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review it.

It's been a while since I read the last Jessica Daniel book. Although Mr Wilkinson has been keeping me busy with a couple of stand alone books in between times, I have really missed the lovely Ms Daniel and was extremely excited when I got my hands on this book. It's book 12 in the series so there is a quite a bit of catching up to do if you haven't been following from book one but, believe me it would be well worth doing that before tackling this one, obviously for background, character development, and series arcs, but also because they are, in my opinion, really darned good!In this book we catch up with Jessica as she is told of the release of Damian Walker. He has been kept incarcerated in a hospital after abducting women some seventeen years ago. Now stable on his medication, he is deemed no longer a threat and has been released into the community and given a new secret identity. Obviously there are some who don't agree with this decision and believe that he is not reformed and should never have been let out. Shorty after his release, there's an attack that bears a lot of resemblance to his crimes. Are the naysayers right and he has struck again or is someone trying to recreate his crimes to frame him? Jessica is soon on the case but her time is also being taken up by a rather fit rock star who believes that his life is in danger and keeps calling on her when strange things happen to him. To top it all, there are the usual shenanigans going on within the force as well as Jessica's past catching up with her, leading to some rather painful decisions she has to make.Well, it's all going on in this book but then, with her personal life once again in turmoil, Jessica needs some good crime solving to get her head stuck into. And she definitely doesn't go lacking here with the allegedly reformed criminal being released and the rather juvenile, badly behaved rock star to practically babysit. She has to have her wits about her in the release case as things really don't make sense for quite a long time. All the theories she comes up with have some element of impossibility to them, at least on the surface. I have to admit to having a slight inking as to what was going on but, at the end of the day, I was nowhere near the full picture. With this crime being rather heinous and the rock star death threats being somewhat intriguing, Mr Wilkinson pops in yet another small thing for the Police to get to grips with and I found that storyline to be rather welcome as respite to what else was going on around and about; loved it!As with the rest of the books in the series, it's the characters that really make the story come alive. I am not just talking about the usual familiar faces of Jessica's police family, although they are all front and centre in this book, dishing out all the usual interaction and banter that I expected. There are also some cracking extras in this book itself. I have to give a special mention to rock star Blaine Banner and the shenanigans that go on around and about him specifically. I just thought he was brilliant and would love to see him popping up again maybe in the future. Manchester obviously plays its usual part, almost as a character in its own right, but specifically key for some elements of this story.And now we come to Jessica, she has a bit of a rum deal personally in this book, mostly to do with her love life past and present but that's all I am going to mention here. Spoilers. Suffice to say that she is her usual no-nonsense, gutsy, hard working cop that I really quite admire.Finally, I have to mention that other thing. If you've followed this series you'll know what I am talking about. Not a fan of cliffhangers. Especially not a fan of then dragging on too long but, as this author and this series is so good, I am willing to let my fury die down and just sit here, waiting patiently for the next book. Hopefully things will become clear soon.